Kentucky News - December 7, 2012

State:

• Study: U.S. students struggle with vocabulary (The Courier-Journal)
• Kentucky program for entrepreneurs designed to aid teen businesses (The Courier-Journal)
• MSU changes gun policy (The Morehead News)
• 3 more Rowan teachers nationally certified (The Morehead News)
• Forest products contributed nearly $10 billion to Kentucky’s economy this year (The Lane Report)
• EKU denies rugby team's appeal (Lexington Herald-Leader)
• State education officials defend test goals to board (Lexington Herald-Leader)
• Group of University of Kentucky students tries to raise awareness for hunger (Lexington Herald-Leader)
• Kentucky Board of Education takes over management of Breathitt school system (Lexington Herald-Leader)
• Kentucky officials announce a summer camp for teen entrepreneurs (Lexington Herald-Leader)
• Murray State University program brings opera, art to region schools (The Paducah Sun)
• WKU Students Headed to Capitol Hill for Presidential Inauguration (WBKO)
• Governor’s School for Entrepreneurs (GSE) will teach high school students creative thinking, business planning (The Lane Report)
• 21 students from around the world begin elite Alltech Graduate Program (The Lane Report)
• UK initiates first cancer reporting model of its kind in U.S. (The Lane Report)
• Appeal from EKU rugby club denied (The Richmond Register)
• Indiana education board considering teacher license changes (The Courier-Journal)
• Beshear unveils teen initiative for job creation (Bowling Green Daily News)
• Kentucky establishes Governor’s School for Entrepreneurs (Examiner)
• Nontraditional student population shows significant growth across the nation (The Eastern Progress)
• UK offers professional landscape architecture degree (The Kentucky Kernel)

National:

• Judge Backs Finding That Accreditor Misled U.S. on For-Profit College (Inside Higher Ed)
• New DOD Memorandum on Tuition Assistance (Inside Higher Ed)
• 'Pay as You Earn' to Start Dec. 21 (Inside Higher Ed)
• From Boardroom to Classroom (Inside Higher Ed)
• Panel favors pre-K overhaul (The Advocate)
• The repercussions of national education standards (The Connecticut Mirror)
• Access to AP Courses in STEM to Grow With $5M Google Gift (Education Week)
• Gates Education Grants: 7 Districts Split $25 Million From Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation For Charter Schools (Huffington Post)
• Hawaii Sets Standards for Early-Childhood Education (Education Week)
• National College Access Network Suggests Overhaul of Federal Student Aid (The Chronicle of Higher Ed)
• In Chicago, Public Schools and Teachers Work Towards a 'Common Core' (PBS)
• Ready for a Fight (Inside Higher Ed)
• Unlikely Pairing? (Inside Higher Ed)
• Providers of Free MOOC's Now Charge Employers for Access to Student Data (The Chronicle of Higher Ed)
• Doctoral Degrees Rose in 2011, but Career Options Weren't So Rosy (The Chronicle of Higher Ed)